Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes

If you want the secondary greatness of recognized talent, focus first on primary greatness of character.

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• Divorce isn't the child's fault. Don't say anything unkind about your ex to the child, because you're really just hurting the child.

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • You
  • Child
  • Divorce

• When I'm in my 50s, I kind of think I'll want to be in a garden.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Think
  • Want
  • Garden

• Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Great
  • Art
  • Steal

• I think comedy is the perfect vehicle for that which is slightly beyond life.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Life
  • Think
  • Perfect

• Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Nature
  • Man
  • Service

• I know what it's like not to have food in the fridge or money to buy more.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
  • Money
  • Know
  • Food

• I trust my hand. If I go into a space with a roll of paper, I can make a work, some kind of work, and feel pretty satisfied.

  

  Kara Walker
  • Work
  • Pretty
  • Space

• Modern psychology has pointed to the need of educating people to use a much larger portion of the mind. Transcendental meditation fulfills this need. And it can be taught very easily.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • People
  • Mind
  • Meditation

• You have to find ways to relate to the characters you get to play. Put it in terms and in a context that speaks to you.

  

  Randy Couture
  • You
  • Play
  • Find

• In my home country, there was a little shop with old books, but it was really in the countryside. You couldn't find English books. I found this very avant-garde American art book that had information about Georgia O'Keeffe. I was very much impressed by her.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Country
  • Art
  • Home

• Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique.

  

  Karl Shapiro
  • Experience
  • Poetry
  • Wise

• Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.

  

  Natalia Makarova
  • Today
  • Simple
  • Perfection

• What people say behind your back is your standing in the community.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • People
  • Community
  • Back

• The use of pirated software in China is really quite a sizeable loss to our software producers.

  

  Lael Brainard
  • Loss
  • China
  • Software

• Love is a kind of warfare.

  

  Ovid
  • Love
  • Kind
  • For Her

• For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
  • Experience
  • Game
  • Me

• I recently reread an article of mine written in 1964, and I think it is still valid. There is not much difference. Many of the items on the agenda 37 years ago are still there.

  

  Harri Holkeri
  • Think
  • Years
  • Difference

• The need to encourage entrepreneurship and ensure that young people have the opportunity to start new businesses is acute.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • People
  • Opportunity
  • Start

• A talib fires three shots at point-blank range at three girls in a van and doesn't kill any of them. This seems an unlikely story.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Story
  • Three
  • Shots

• I love 'Pac-man', 'Mortal Kombat', and 'Street Fighter'. 'Ryu' is my favourite-ever character - I'd love to leapfrog the Hadouken. I never really evolved too far beyond that, but I have played '2K17'.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • Love
  • Character
  • Beyond

• I worked at Barney's selling clothes to lonely, rich white women. Every time I would look down on myself - hating my job, hating my life - I would think, 'It's a character study. Study these people, and you'll have your SNL audition ready in, like, five minutes.'

  

  Brandon Uranowitz
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• I love all my scoop children. But consistency and persistence is really my aim.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Children
  • Aim
  • Consistency

• I'm in need of a man apron. A very manly apron.

  

  Mike D The Beastie Boys
  • Man
  • Need
  • Apron

• If you want the secondary greatness of recognized talent, focus first on primary greatness of character.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Character
  • Focus
  • inspirational